320 LETTERS TO PROFESSOR WALLACE [CHAP. xxvi. 



a comfortable journey home. Please accept the enclosed 

 [the twenty-fourth and last Report]. I have only received a 

 parcel late to-day, but I want to send you a copy " from the 

 writer." 



March 18, 1901. 



I am very glad your colonial lecture was successful. 

 It is no good my not telling you, for some way or other 

 you would have an idea, but I have not been thriving. Of 

 course there was a flood of letters about discontinuing the 

 Annual Reports, and, however kind (and some were very 

 kind indeed) yet not being in full working order, they were 

 rather too much, and I got feverish " rigors " (though not 

 bad) with temperature 100, and the doctor on Saturday 

 ordered me straight off to bed. Here I am still, but as far as 

 I know, now only as a matter of precaution. I would not 

 have said anything about it, but I was sure you would have 

 an idea. 



Now about something much nicer. I wrote to Miss Ash- 

 worth (28, Victoria Street, London) and had a most pleasant 

 and businesslike reply. She told me that publishers pre- 

 ferred quarto size and typed a few lines to show the size of 

 type and style they like best ; and I sent up the " Chartist 

 Outbreak" (chap. VII.) and asked her to type it for me 

 accordingly, and to let me have one copy and two carbon 

 copies. Thus there would be one for you, one for me, and 

 the third would be useful for the publisher. I should be very 

 much obliged if you would kindly tell me how to offer a 

 copy of my twenty-fourth Report to the University Library. 

 Would it be sufficient just to send a copy c/o The Librarian. 

 I do not want to give more trouble than I can help about 

 such a little thing. 



P.S. I assure you I mean to attend to your kind advice 

 of not making what might be a great pleasure into a toil. 



March 20, 1901. 



Here comes the first instalment of " Reminiscences " and I 

 hope to forward more to you in due course. The history of 

 " Rise and Progress of Annual Reports" is in Miss Ash worth's 

 hands. Indeed, I am very thankful to you for helping me 

 about the typewriting. I had no idea of the helpful 

 difference it makes even to me. Please, I earnestly beg 

 of you, do not think that your delightful and helpful visit, 

 only too short, had anything to do with my having to call 

 in the doctor again. I am sure he does not. But I am 

 sure, too, you will understand how very trying indeed, 

 though mostly very kind, the outbreak of newspaper and 



